School Bus Driver Won't Face Charges For Fight: Report

MARIETTA, GA — A school bus driver for the Marietta City Schools will face no criminal charges stemming from a fight that took place on her vehicle on Oct. 20 on Roswell Road, according to a media report. The unidentified woman had been placed on administrative leave while the Marietta Police Department investigated the incident, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday.

The bus driver had been accused of threatening, cursing and hitting students from Lockheed Elementary School in the Oct. 20 incident, the newspaper reported. Police detectives gathered facts and spoke to witnesses, but determined that there was not enough evidence to seek criminal charges, a police spokesman said.

A police report stated that the alleged fight on the bus left two children injured, according to the AJC. The two students told police that the bus driver had cursed at them, pushed them and hit them on the ride home.

The police said other students confirmed the accounts of the two injured children, and one child got off the bus with a bloody head, the AJC reported.

The bus driver denied these accounts, telling police that her only physical contact with the children involved "putting her right arm out to stop them from leaving the bus before they were supposed to," the AJC reported. She told the police she did not observe any injuries or threaten the children.

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